The November 2025 National Security Strategy: A Polish Perspective Zbigniew Brzeziński understood, with the clarity that exile confers, that Ukraine’s independence had redrawn the strategic map of Europe. Without Ukraine, he wrote, Russia ceases to be an empire; with it, Russia becomes automatically an empire. What held for Moscow held equally for Warsaw: a sovereign … Continue reading The Conditional Guarantee: Poland and the Transactional Turn in American Strategy